Tweet What is the thread that ties together the rapid rise of companies as different as Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, The Huffington Post and Quora? Wedbush Securities, a brokerage firm that analyzes the valuations of private companies, says they are all players in what it calls the “Second Internet.” Wedbush says there are certain attributes that allow such players to grow and thrive while more traditional players — including some of…

Tweet Blogger added five dynamic templates that transform blogs into interactive apps. Just add /view to the URL of a blog that offers full feeds (for example: googlesystem.blogspot.com/view) and you’ll be able to try the new views: flipcard, mosaic, sidebar, snapshot and timeline. Blogger’s templates offer features like infinite scrolling, progressive image loading, smart search, filtering posts by date, author or label. “These new views use the latest in web…

Tweet Hotmail just got even better when run on IE9. Today, Hotmail added email notifications to its pinned site that displays the number of new messages directly in the taskbar. It’s an easy way to keep an eye on new updates with a glance. Pin Hotmail to your taskbar to start seeing this in action! Hotmail also gives you quick access to mail tasks from the jumplist. Right-click on the…

Tweet Cisco Videoscape is a service provider solution that lets consumers bring together content from pay TV, online, and on-demand sources. They can then combine content with social media, communications, and mobility to create a truly immersive TV experience. Cisco Videoscape reinvents the TV experience and makes it something entirely new: More simple. Less complexity, with fewer devices needed for immersive experiences More visual. A vast array of content delivered…

Tweet If you’re a regular Twitter user and use the official application for the iPhone or iPad, you’ll know that the latest update promotes advertisements on top of your feed. The annoying new feature was called the Quickbar, or known around the Internet as the Dickbar. The very controversial Dickbar was meant… Neowin.net